2015/gardenia

While I was working
on poems
a gardenia bloomed,
lest there be any
mistaking
I’m not that clever.
Earlier I had noticed
blooms on another bush
which weren’t there
the last time I passed.
But that was days ago
before I was sick,
the last time I worked,
lest there be any
mistaking
that I am mortal.

5/28/15